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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By eakeith | Photo Gallery
Photos from the Inca Trail
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By eakeith | Views [1584] | Scholarship Entry
The porter's eyes twinkle as he passes me the soap. It's dark along the Inca Trail, but moonlight fills the campsite as hikers prepare for bed. As I wash my hands, I ask his name. He winks when he hears my Spanish. "Aderlin." The name slides off his ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By queenofcoldnoses | Views [365] | Scholarship Entry
Pineapples ripen and fall before human hands can find them. Dozens of bird species don vibrant costumes and shriek their theme songs to rattle eardrums on adjacent mountains. It takes only a downwards glance to see ants the size of big toes forming a ... Read more >
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By farfalla | Views [392]
Es ist wohl immer am schwierigsten zu beginnen. Denn wo ist eigentlich der Beginn? Ich glaube diese Reise begann schon im letzten Jahr in der Schweiz, als ich mich das erste Mal wie einen Nomaden fuehlte:) Es war eine voellig neue Erfahrung ohne meine ... Read more >
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By gabrielapalma | Views [419] | Scholarship Entry
My head was resting on a padded surface, I blinked rapidly and glimpsed her colorful red predominant blur, I sensed her body heat, and Dear lord she stinks. I am exhausted and I was starting to feel trapped, she was a little big but the colorful woolen ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By tadzjo | Views [422] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
We must have been the same age, and yet the differences between our lives could be expressed in light-years. Stars sprinkled above the Incan Capital, when I almost tripped over four small colorful socks and witnessed something I couldn’t just walk away ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By ayahuasca | Views [393] | Scholarship Entry
Swimming in the Pacific one day, on a board in an Andean market the next – that's the fate of a sea bass bound for the traditional Peruvian dish of cerviche. However interesting the debates on the origin of the dish might be they miss a crucial aspect ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By yo_veo | Views [353] | Scholarship Entry
Antonieta is dead. I was slowly aroused from my slumber by the sounds of honking horns, heavy and heaving with the frustration of the drivers behind the wheels of the bruised up, knocked up, beaten up micros and combis careening through the narrow and ... Read more >
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By superhuman | Views [290] | Scholarship Entry
The wide streets and avenues of Lima have set the appropriate stage for an active city. Lima is the capital and largest city in Peru with a population of 9 million people. Sitting on the wings of its streets are usually traditional restaurants, inexpensive ... Read more >
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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 | By joannawong | Views [547]
Peru is amazing. I've quickly discovered that two weeks in Peru might not be enough. Although I am doing more than what I initially planned to do, I'm really only visiting the Sierra or mountain region of Peru. There are still two other regions ... Read more >
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Thu, 11 Apr 2013 | By ladyinwhite | Views [310] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
The caked dirt on his face stood in marked contrast to the gleaming whites of his eyes. The boy could not be more than 10 years old, yet the maturity in his soul seeped through as he harrowingly directed a group of sheep past a narrow mountain ridge at ... Read more >
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Wed, 10 Apr 2013 | By ianbrown | Views [255] | Scholarship Entry
As we gazed into each other’s eyes, there was an unmistakable spark of understanding before a pair of brown hands scooped her up and she was examined from head to toe. Her ginger hair glistened in the afternoon sun as the local Peruvian men fawned over ... Read more >
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Tue, 9 Apr 2013 | By joannawong | Views [625]
I've arrived in Lima!
The guy at the check-in counter in Toronto was kind enough to seat me in an empty middle row and I slept pretty much all of the flight very comfortably. Maybe a little too comfortably because I missed breakfast. :(
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Fri, 5 Apr 2013 | By aurorainpunoperu | Views [247] | Scholarship Entry
As waking up from a dream I found myself in a place 3830 meters above sea level -almost half the height of the Everest. Two blue brothers, the Titicaca Lake and the infinite sky, surround this place. All my senses are transported to an autochthonous world ... Read more >
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Tue, 2 Apr 2013 | By jesjesco | Views [638]
Exactly one month ago today, I left a cold and gray DC and arrived in an only slightly warmer Arequipa, Peru, amidst pouring rain and floods. I felt nervous and unsure of the move I had just made, but ready to move forward. The rains quickly turning ... Read more >
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